Background: Joseph “Mad Dog” Crimo has been a lowers regular since the hay days of Chicken, Randall, and the …lost “What is really going wrong” era of surfing. Crimo invented (and later finessed) some of the most fundamental aspects of power surfing with the introduction of the “pop-shovit” maneuver, which he mastered after practicing for over a 20 year career of surfing the hallow rights at Lowers. Hurley, by providing this master of the sport with a wildcard, the surfing world gives thanks for this progressive approach to riding waves which fundametnally changed the way we all surf and approach waves.